Short-term cognitive fatigue effect on auditory temporal order judgments.

ABSTRACT: Fatigue is a core symptom in many psychological disorders and it can strongly influence everyday productivity. As fatigue effects have been typically demonstrated after long hours of time on task, it was surprising that in a previous study, we accidentally found a decline of temporal order judgment (TOJ) performance within 5-8 min. After replicating prior relevant findings we tested whether pauses and/or feedback relating the participant's performance to some "standard" can eliminate or reduce this short-term performance decline. We also assessed whether the performance decline is specific to the processes evoked by the TOJ task or it is a product of either general inattentiveness or the lack of willingness to thoroughly follow the task instructions. We found that both feedback and introdu

SUBMITTER: Simon J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7007914 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature